Yulia Klymenko
Yulia Klymenko | |
|---|---|
Юлія Клименко | |
| People's Deputy of Ukraine | |
| Assumed office 29 August 2019 | |
| Constituency | Holos, No. 2 |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 5 October 1976 Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Ukraine) |
| Political party | Holos |
| Other political affiliations | Justice |
| Alma mater | |
Yulia Leonidivna Klymenko (Ukrainian: Юлія Леонідівна Клименко; born 5 October 1976) is a Ukrainian politician currently serving as a People's Deputy of Ukraine on the proportional list of the Holos party since 2019. Prior to her election, she served as Deputy Minister of Economic Development and Trade between 2015 and 2016.
Early life and career[edit]
Yulia Leonidivna Klymenko was born in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv on 5 October 1976 to a family of engineers and builders. She studied at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy from 1993 to 1997, graduating with a specialisation in economic theory, and later earned a Master of Business Administration from the International Management Institute in Kyiv.[1] Klymenko completed her postgraduate education at the Institute of Real Estate Management in the United States.[2]
Following her graduation, Klymenko worked in the private sector as director of several companies, including Cantik Enterprises, Dragon Development, Slavutych, and the PFTS Stock Exchange. She was also a member of the board of directors at the Economic Strategy Centre, Transparency International Ukraine, and an official of the Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority.[3]
Prior to her election, Klymenko had also held jobs at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and at East Capital, in Sweden. She was an adviser to the Kyiv School of Economics for matters of business education from 2018,[1] and additionally serving as the school's vice-president.[2]
Political career[edit]
On 5 December 2015 Klymenko founded a party known as the Platform of Initiatives. It was later reorganised into Holos. From 2015 to 2016 she also briefly served as Deputy Minister of Economic Development and Trade under Aivaras Abromavičius.[1] Klymenko became head of Holos in 2019,[2] serving as the party's chief of staff during the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election. During the same election, she was the second candidate on the party's proportional list. She was successfully elected, and became first deputy chair of the Verkhovna Rada Transport and Infrastructure Committee.[1]
Klymenko voted in favour of the removal of Arsen Avakov as Minister of Internal Affairs, and has expressed support for the removal of pro-Russian politicians from office following the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.[2] She voted for a ban on the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate),[4] and has referred to Iran's supplying of Shahed 129 drones to Russia during the Russian invasion of Ukraine as "terrorism and genocide of civilians."[5]
Klymenko left Holos on 16 June 2021 to join the Justice parliamentary group, formed by Holos deputies who were opposed to the leadership of Kira Rudik.[6]
Personal life[edit]
Klymenko is married, and has six children.[1]
References[edit]
- ^ a b c d e "Клименко Юлія Леонідівна" [Klymenko, Yulia Leonidivna]. LB.ua (in Ukrainian). 4 September 2019. Retrieved 3 February 2024.
- ^ a b c d "Клименко Юлія Леонідівна" [Klymenko, Yulia Leonidivna]. Chesno (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 3 February 2024.
- ^ "Клименко Юлія" [Klymenko, Yulia]. LIGA (in Ukrainian). 15 September 2023. Retrieved 3 February 2024.
- ^ Bulavin, Denis (5 October 2023). "В Раде собрали 226 голосов в поддержку законопроектов о запрете УПЦ МП" [Rada gathers 226 votes on bill to ban UOC MP]. Hromadske (in Russian). Retrieved 3 February 2024.
- ^ "Destruction Of Ukrainian Infrastructure By Iranian Drones 'Terrorism' - MP". Iran International. 28 December 2022. Retrieved 3 February 2024.
- ^ "Половина "Голосу" оголосила недовіру керівнику фракції і створила собі об'єднання" [Half of Holos announces no confidence vote in faction leader, forms group]. Ukrainska Pravda (in Ukrainian). 16 June 2021. Retrieved 3 February 2024.